Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key is to start with something simple ; 95 per cent of the decisions you make are unconscious — for example , when you drive a car you never really think about putting it into first or second gear . |
| 2 | One of the difficulties of proceeding with the single currency , particularly if a small number of member states within the Community were to proceed on their own , is that it would become increasingly difficult for others to join them at a later stage . |
| 3 | His job is to look after us both as regards our work at the Institute as well as on recreational trips , and he does his best , although his English is perhaps not as good as it could be ( at least he sometimes does n't seem to understand what we say ) . |
| 4 | Julian and I have decided that our business is to look after our own people here in the country . ’ |
| 5 | One principal target of this non-political group is to capitalise on their public profiles to raise consumer consciousness , while putting pressure on the powers-that-be to reveal the extent to which pesticides are used — preferably through comprehensive labelling of all foods . |
| 6 | One person on his own could not constitute a procession , but if a person were to march on his own , having publicised the fact widely in advance , it would seem that he might be said to be organising a procession if , Pied Piper like , he were to draw a crowd of supporters and followers . |
| 7 | She must face that possibility , and take her chance , if their relationship was to progress beyond its present stage . |
| 8 | In 1989 the Home Affairs Select Committee announced that the work of the Police Complaints Authority is to come under its formal scrutiny and investigation . |
| 9 | The 29ft 6in columns of North Leith Church were to reappear at his great Classical mansion of Camperdown seven years later . |
| 10 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 11 | Car owners whose main concern is to return to their parked vehicles will need to retrace their steps exactly to avoid steep cliffs at the south end , but others with no such inhibitions can extend the walk , and enjoy doing so , by following the crest of the ridge northwards until meeting the path coming up from Clapham Bottoms bound for Selside , here turning down east to join another path to Selside , this continuing the road along Crummackdale from Austwick . |
| 12 | ( His tragic folly was to insist after his successful revolution that only he knew which characters to write . ) |
| 13 | In summary , cooperation is still necessary if trade , output , and employment are to develop to their full potential . |
| 14 | For many the initial reason for entering a progressive health organization is to fight for their own rights and welfare . |
| 15 | THE doctor convicted of attempting to murder a patient is to return to his old job . |
| 16 | A more reliable method of sexing an individual is to look at its inner three fingers . |
| 17 | An interesting additional observation was to find in my front-room data nonce nonsense formations , such as thingummycallit , and several idiosyncratic items , such as gobsocket and jiminycricket . |